As an active identifier, at times I find myself struggling to find valuable or interesting observations and often having to wade through a sea of low-quality observations (unclear subject, blurry, repetitive, dark lighting, etc.) to find them. It seems that over time, the problem of finding the inte…

[image] spiphany: Since you think it would be worthwhile to incentivize quality over quantity even at the price of discouraging a few users – what would this look like concretely? How is quality to be defined? What is the threshold for “good enough”? What determines whether an observation is use…

[image] spiphany: However, following is partly a metric of social capital (how well networked someone is); it does not directly depend on the quality of the observations. …maybe? I’ve got over 100 followers and I have no idea who any of them are apart from a few friends and a handful of peopl…

[image] lynkos: There’s active discouragement and there’s passive discouragement Well, it seems to me that this: [image] jasonhernandez74: I have no qualms about saying that people need to be discouraged from posting such content – regardless of whether they enjoy the feeling. is inde…

[image] spiphany: competing to finish with the most observations I don’t think many do that. The sadder ‘poor quality’ is … I am here on iNat for the weekend of the challenge. And now I’m gone. Leaving wrong IDs. Lots of cultivated obs. If we can encourage those new CNC and GSB iNatters to c…

I don’t quite understand that this tool does. What I would like to be able to do is have a filter in the identify modal that could be set so that it would show me species with e.g. <X (could be 10, 20 etc., great it if could be adjustable) observations in a particular place. I would want it to cat…

[image] lynkos: or is there some other way I haven’t come across yet? Try the projects Beach Blobs and “Beach Finds & Washashore.”

[image] matthias55: What I would like to be able to do is have a filter in the identify modal that could be set so that it would show me species with e.g. <X (could be 10, 20 etc., great it if could be adjustable) observations in a particular place. I think there’s a way to get more-or-less w…

[image] sedgequeen: Try the projects Beach Blobs and “Beach Finds & Washashore.” The problem with using projects is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to mark observations reviewed in a batch like I can with the “Identify” tab. It gets really time consuming to open each observation that I kn…

You can select a specific project in the identify tab actually ! I underlined in yellow the field you can use (sorry for the French UI) [projet.PNG]

If you open the observation, or if you’re seeing it as a thumbnail in “Identify” mode, you have the option to simply mark it Reviewed without applying any name to it.

How to surface interesting observations

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DianaStuder October 8, 2024, 4:31pm 44

There is a fresh thread
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/your-strangest-unknown-observations/56835/29

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